zeitgeist-daemon(1)

1ZEITGEIST-DAEMON(1)         General Commands Manual        ZEITGEIST-DAEMON(1)
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NAME

6       zeitgeist-daemon - D-Bus interface providing a log of activities
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SYNOPSIS

10       zeitgeist-daemon [OPTION]
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DESCRIPTION

14       zeitgeist-daemon  is daemon providing an activity log. That is, it con‐
15       sists of a central database for events such as file usage, browser his‐
16       tory, calendar entries, etc.
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18       All  this  information is made available to external applications which
19       communicate with zeitgeist-daemon over D-Bus.  Interested  applications
20       can request information, insert new events or delete existing events.
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22       Zeitgeist is also capable of establishing relationships between activi‐
23       ties. Its purpose is enabling an activity-aware desktop  with  adaptive
24       user interfaces.
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26       By default, zeitgeist-daemon will also start the bundled logging appli‐
27       cation zeitgeist-datahub.
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OPTIONS

31       The program follows the usual GNU command  line  syntax,  with  options
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35       --no-datahub
36              Do not start zeitgeist-datahub together with this daemon.
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38       -r, --replace
39              Replace any existing Zeitgeist instance if there is one  already
40              running. If this option isn't used, zeitgeist-daemon will refuse
41              to start if another running instance is found.
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43       --log-level=LOG_LEVEL
44              Specifies how much information should be printed to the standard
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49              Specifies a file to which log output will be appended.
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51       -q, --quit
52              Stop a currently running Zeitgeist instance and exit. This  lets
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56              Shows which version of Zeitgeist is being executed.
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59              Shows a short help message listing all supported options.
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

63       ZEITGEIST_DATA_PATH
64              Overrides  the  directory  where user data files are placed. The
65              default  value  is  that  of  XDG's  data  dir  (usually  ~/.lo‐
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68       ZEITGEIST_DATABASE_PATH
69              This  variable  lets you specify an override for the filename of
70              the main database. The default value is $ZEITGEIST_DATA_PATH/ac‐
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73       ZEITGEIST_DATABASE_BACKUP_PATH
74              This variable lets you specify an override for the filename of a
75              possible  database  backup.  The   default   value   is   $ZEIT‐
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78       ZEITGEIST_DISABLED_EXTENSIONS
79              This variable lets you specify comma separated list of extension
80              names which shouldn't be loaded. The names  are  extracted  from
81              type  names of the extensions, so to disable extension with type
82              name ZeitgeistDataSourceRegistry, value of the  variable  should
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SIGNALS

87       SIGHUP: zeitgeist-daemon will shut itself down in a clean way.
88              It  is  recommended  that  system updates of Zeitgeist send this
89              signal to all running instances of zeitgeist-daemon. DBus  acti‐
90              vation  will  make  sure  the  updated software is automatically
91              restarted when needed.
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EXIT CODES

95       0      Zeitgeist terminated normally.
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99       10     There is already a running Zeitgeist instance.
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BUGS

111       Please  report   any   bugs   on   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/zeit‐
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AUTHORS

116       Please  see  the  AUTHORS file bundled with this application for a com‐
117       plete list of contributors.
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LICENSE

121       This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
122       under  the  terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
123       by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License,  or
124       (at your option) any later version.
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126       This  program  is  distributed  in the hope that it will be useful, but
127       WITHOUT ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even  the  implied  warranty  of  MER‐
128       CHANTABILITY  or  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser
129       General Public License for more details.
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131       You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser  General  Public  Li‐
132       cense  along  with  this  program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/li‐
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